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From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Weird serial port problem
Message-ID: <1991May15.135029.831@bilver.uucp>
Date: 15 May 91 13:50:29 GMT
References: <1991May14.171546.12301@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <1991May14.171546.12301@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:

>I am running UNIX HOUSE sysv5 rel 4 on one of there 486 boxes.  Yesterday,
>I installed a second serial card in the machine by manually adding it to 
>into the system. ...

>it responds 
>to the login request really slow. It seems to be printing the welcome message
>one character at a time with a long pause in between characters.

Had that one time on a Xenix system.  Changed to a different serial card
and it went away.   On that system the characters were being presented at
about 1 character per second.    That, I thought, was a bit slow for a 9600
bps link :-)   Can you borrow another serial board to try? 



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